Dr Verity Bennett

2025

• Westlake, D. and Bennett, V. 2025. Go big or go home: trialling the Social Workers in Schools programme during a pandemic. In: Westlake, D. , Sanders, M. and Hirneis, V. eds. Experimental Methods and Children's Social Care: The Contribution of Randomised Controlled Trials. Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2025 Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. , pp.107-120. (10.4337/9781035327157.00018)
• Westlake, D. et al. 2025. A Cluster randomised controlled trial of social workers in schools in England. Research on Social Work Practice (10.1177/10497315251338227)
• Wilkins, D. and Bennett, V. 2025. Making accurate judgements in child welfare: comparing ChatGPT with qualified social workers. Child & Family Social Work (10.1111/cfs.13304)
• Wilkins, D. et al. 2025. Implementing Schwartz Rounds in children’s social care: enablers and barriers. Journal of Social Work 25 (1), pp.61-82. (10.1177/14680173241278249)

2024

• Bennett, V. et al. 2024. Student perspectives on school-based social workers: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Children's Services 19 (3), pp.189-221. (10.1108/JCS-04-2023-0021)
• Bennett, V. et al. 2024. Assessing the feasibility of using parents' social media conversations to inform burn first aid interventions: mixed methods study. JMIR Formative Research 8 e48695. (10.2196/48695)
• Cowley, L. E. et al. 2024. Factors influencing clinicians', health visitors' and social workers' professional judgements, decision‐making and multidisciplinary collaboration when safeguarding children with burn injuries: a qualitative study. Child Abuse Review 33 (1) e2862. (10.1002/car.2862)
• Sanders, M. et al., 2024. Pilot trial protocol: Police in corridors.
• Schroeder, E. et al., 2024. The cost-effectiveness and cost-consequences of a school-based social worker intervention: a within-trial economic evaluation. [Online].SSRN. (10.2139/ssrn.4776734)

2023

• Adara, L. et al. 2023. The Social Workers in Schools Trial: An evaluation of school based social work.. Project Report.Early Intervention Foundation.
• Bennett, C. V. et al. 2023. The impact of a clinical prediction tool (BuRN-Tool) for child maltreatment on social care outcomes for children attending hospital with a burn or scald injury. Burns 49 (4), pp.941-950. (10.1016/j.burns.2022.07.014)
• Maxwell, N. et al. 2023. Serious Organised Crime Early Intervention Service Evaluation. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff: CASCADE. Available at: https://cascadewales.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/06/SOCEIS-Evaluation-2023.pdf.

2022

• Westlake, D. et al. 2022. The SWIS trial: protocol of a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial of school based social work. PLoS ONE 17 (6) e0265354.. (10.1371/journal.pone.0265354)

2021

• Carter, B. et al. 2021. Healthcare use by children and young adults with cerebral palsy. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 63 (1), pp.75-80. (10.1111/dmcn.14536)
• Cowley, L. E. et al. 2021. A mixed-methods process evaluation of SafeTea: A multimedia campaign to prevent hot drink scalds in young children and promote burn first aid. Injury Prevention 27 , pp.419-427. (10.1136/injuryprev-2020-043909)
• Glenn, K. et al., 2021. Head computed tomography in suspected physical abuse: time to rethink?. Archives of Disease in Childhood 106 (5), pp.461-466. (10.1136/archdischild-2020-320192)
• Hollen, L. et al., 2021. Evaluation of the efficacy and impact of a clinical prediction tool to identify maltreatment associated with children’s burns. BMJ Paediatrics Open 5 (1) e000796. (10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000796)
• Wilkins, D. et al. 2021. A randomised controlled trial of Schwartz Rounds: An intervention to reduce psychological distress for staff in children's services.

2020

• Bennett, C. V. et al. 2020. Feasibility of Safe-Tea: A parent targeted intervention to prevent hot drink scalds in pre-school children. Injury Prevention 26 (1), pp.31-41. (10.1136/injuryprev-2018-042921)
• Hepburn, K. et al., 2020. Burns and Scalds Assessment Template: standardising clinical assessment of childhood burns in the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Journal 37 (6), pp.351-354. (10.1136/emermed-2019-208595)
• Javaid, A. A. et al. 2020. Contact burns: the influence of agents and mechanisms of injury on anatomical burn locations in children <5 years old and associations with child protection referrals. Archives of Disease in Childhood 105 , pp.580-586. (10.1136/archdischild-2019-318140)
• McNulty, C. A. M. et al., 2020. Teacher and student views on the feasibility of peer to peer education as a model to educate 16-18 year olds on prudent antibiotic use-a qualitative study. Antibiotics 9 (4) 194. (10.3390/antibiotics9040194)
• McNulty, C. A. M. et al., 2020. Peer-education as a tool to educate on antibiotics, resistance and use in 16-18-year-olds: a feasibility study. Antibiotics 9 (4) 146. (10.3390/antibiotics9040146)
• Nuttall, D. et al. 2020. Would shared health visitor and emergency department records improve recognition of child maltreatment within the emergency department? A prospective multicentre study. Child Abuse Review 29 (6), pp.518-528. (10.1002/car.2641)

2019

• Bennett, C. V. et al. 2019. First aid for children's burns in the US and UK: An urgent call to establish and promote international standards. Burns 45 (2), pp.440-449. (10.1016/j.burns.2018.09.003)
• Carter, B. et al. 2019. Identifying cerebral palsy from routinely-collected data in England and Wales. Clinical Epidemiology 2019 (11), pp.457-468. (10.2147/CLEP.S200748)

2018

• Bennett, C. V. et al. 2018. Deep time diversity of metatherian mammals: implications for evolutionary history and fossil-record quality. Paleobiology 44 (02), pp.171-198. (10.1017/pab.2017.34)